Creating Template Logical Structure

A template must have a specific structure of directories. The sample of a correct structure is given below:

<Template>/

The root template directory. You can rename it.

 

Themes/

Contains files pertaining to template colour schemes. By default, Sitebuilder Wizard supports three different colour schemes for a specific template, but you can vary this number by changing number of sub-directories nested into this directory. Note that if you use more than three color schemes, this may break the appearance of a site based on the template at the "Design" step of the Wizard.

 

Colour 1/

Contains files pertaining to the template colour scheme named Colour 1. The name is displayed at the "Design" step of the Wizard. You can rename the color themes (by renaming the sub-directories).

 

Menus/

Contains files that define menus style (active and inactive bullets, .skin files, etc). There can be one or more different menu styles depending on a number of sub-directories nested inside this directory. A specific colour scheme may use different sets of menu styles.

Note that if you use more than three menu styles, this may break the appearance of a site based on the template at the "Design" step of the Wizard.

The subdirectories of must be named HeaderN, where N stands for the number of a header banner.

If the directory does not contain any subdirectories, menu style files are retrieved from the directory.

 

Menu1/

Contains files of the menu style named Menu1.

 

Headers/

Contains template header banners for a specific colour scheme. There can be one or more different header banners depending on a number of sub-directories nested into this directory.

The subdirectories of must be named HeaderN, where N stands for the number of a header banner.

If the directory does not contain any subdirectories, header banners are retrieved from the directory.

 

Header1/

Contains header banner named Header1.

 

Images/

Contains other graphics files related to a corresponding color scheme. For instance, the directory contains the default logo image (the logo.gif. file).

 

styles.css

Contains style sheets of a template. It may contain any number of selectors, but the recommended ones are pageContent and pageContent a. These selectors are responsible for presentation of the content area.

 

master.page

Defines design and layout of a site page.

The color theme directory can also contain the modules design rules. For more details on this subject, see the Changing Appearance of Sitebuilder Modules section.